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elbow room

elbow room noun: room (space) in which to move or maneuver.

Noun

elbow room (uncountable)

  1. Room (space) in which to move or maneuver.
    • There wasn't that much elbow room in the aircraft.
  2. (figuratively) Freedom or leeway.
    • The employees really don't have much elbow room in which to explore new ideas.

elbow room meaning in Malayalam

elbow room in Malayalam

room to manoeuvre, room, space
ഇടം, നിന്നുതിരിയാനിടം, സ്വച്ഛന്ദമായി പെരുമാറാൻ വേണ്ടത്ര ഇടം, വേണ്ടത്ര സ്ഥലം, ധാരാളം സ്ഥലം, സ്ഥലം

Forms of elbow room

alternative formelbowroom

Questions about elbow room

What does elbow room mean?
Elbow room means room (space) in which to move or maneuver.
What is elbow room in Malayalam?
Elbow room in Malayalam is ഇടം, നിന്നുതിരിയാനിടം, സ്വച്ഛന്ദമായി പെരുമാറാൻ വേണ്ടത്ര ഇടം. See Elbow room meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is elbow room?
Elbow room is a noun.

Words near elbow room in the dictionary

  1. elbow plants
  2. elbow relation
  3. elbow relations
  4. elbow rim
  5. elbow rims
  6. elbow room
  7. elbow scissors
  8. elbow shake
  9. elbow shakes
  10. elbow sleeve
  11. elbow sleeves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elbow room (page history and authors); elbow room (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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